Summer Heights High is hands-down the most hysterical-yet-equally-offensive show you aren’t watching.
The Australian import (now airing on HBO) is shot in a mockumentary style (like The Office), that takes place at a high school. Mastermind Chris Lilley plays all three lead characters, which are pee-in-your-pants kind of funny:
Ja’mie King: If her pretentious, piece-of-shadoobie of a name didn’t tip you off, this stunning gift from God comes from a private school as some sort of a transfer student and has to endure the hells of public school.
Mr. G: Think Clay Aiken if he were plotting the overthrow your high school drama department. He treats the school like an insensitive playhouse and makes an upbeat school musical about a teen student’s overdose -- and somehow it turns out to be outrageously funny.
Jonah Takalua: Hands down my personal favorite comedic character Since Michael Scott. Remember the kid in high school who never wanted to learn, cursed at the teacher and swore he said “puck you,” but was also the class clown? If he were Polonesian and a breakdancer, he’d be Jonah.
Don't believe me? Watch the scintillating wisdom from the characters themselves below. Enjoy.
-- Ace edit.
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